Full Text of HR1214 96th General Assembly
HR1214 96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of | 3 |
| Representatives are pleased to congratulate Dr. Eric Jakobsson | 4 |
| on his retirement from the University of Illinois at | 5 |
| Urbana-Champaign; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Eric Jakobsson served the University of | 7 |
| Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in exemplary fashion for 39 years | 8 |
| in the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology; the | 9 |
| National Center for Supercomputing Applications; | 10 |
| Bioengineering; the Center for Biophysics and Computational | 11 |
| Biology; the Department of Biochemisty; the Neuroscience | 12 |
| Program; and the Beckman Institute as a researcher, teacher, | 13 |
| and administrator; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Jakobsson received his B.A from Columbia | 15 |
| College, his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia | 16 |
| University School of Engineering, and his Ph.D. in physics from | 17 |
| Dartmouth College; in addition, he received postdoctoral | 18 |
| training at Case Western Reserve University in physiology; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Jakobsson has made major contributions | 20 |
| nationally in research administration in computational biology | 21 |
| as the first Director of the Center for Bioinformatics and | 22 |
| Computational Biology at the National Institute of General |
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| Medical Sciences in the National Institutes of Health, which | 2 |
| supported research that joins biology with computer science, | 3 |
| engineering, mathematics, and physics; in that capacity he | 4 |
| chaired the National Institutes of Health Biomedical | 5 |
| Information Science and Technology Initiative Consortium and | 6 |
| participated broadly in planning related to computational | 7 |
| biology; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, Dr. Jakobsson has been an outstanding teacher and | 9 |
| mentor, receiving the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | 10 |
| Advising Award, being named to the Incomplete List of Excellent | 11 |
| Teachers, and being nominated for the College of Liberal Arts | 12 |
| and Sciences Teaching Award; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Jakobsson is an exceptional scientist who is | 14 |
| studying the biology of ion channels, which among other things | 15 |
| underlie all nervous activity and the transport of ions across | 16 |
| membranes, by state-of-the-art computational and bioinformatic | 17 |
| approaches; and
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Jakobsson has lectured nationally and | 19 |
| internationally on his research; he has received continuous | 20 |
| funding for his research from the National Science Foundation | 21 |
| and the National Institutes of Health; he has served on many | 22 |
| national review panels, and has published his work in more than | 23 |
| 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts; and |
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| WHEREAS, Dr. Jakobsson was elected as a Fellow of the | 2 |
| American Physical Society; Dr. Jakobsson has been active in | 3 |
| administrative functions at the University of Illinois, | 4 |
| serving as Director of the Bioengineering Program, Director of | 5 |
| the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, and | 6 |
| Director of the National Center for Design of Biomimetic | 7 |
| Nanoconductors; and | 8 |
| WHEREAS, Dr. Jakobsson is married to Illinois State | 9 |
| Representative Naomi Jokobsson; together, they are the proud | 10 |
| parents of eight children, two by birth and six by adoption; | 11 |
| they have also been foster parents to many children; in | 12 |
| addition, they are the doting grandparents of eleven | 13 |
| grandchildren who will happily be a part of Dr. Jakobsson's | 14 |
| retirement plans; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 16 |
| NINETY-SIXTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | 17 |
| congratulate Dr. Eric Jakobsson on his retirement, thank him | 18 |
| for his years of service, and wish him the best in all his | 19 |
| future endeavors; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 21 |
| presented to Dr. Eric Jakobsson as a symbol of our respect and | 22 |
| esteem.
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